Reducing laboratory turnaround time outliers can reduce emergency department patient length of stay: an 11-hospital study.

abstract：:A comparative study of large cell lymphoma (LCL) (ten B and ten T), Hodgkin's disease (15 cases), and true histiocytic lymphoma (two cases) was undertaken, using formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded tissue sections, a panel of eight antibodies, and one lectin to determine if any particular antibody or immunologic profile ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Meis JM,Osborne BM,Butler JJ

更新日期：1986-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 75-year-old man with Staphylococcus aureus endocarditis in whom acute diffuse proliferative glomerulonephritis developed is described. The light- and electron-microscopic changes of the glomeruli in this case were identical to those of acute poststreptococcal glomerulonephritis. Immunofluorescence revealed depositio...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Yum M,Wheat LJ,Maxwell D,Edwards JL

更新日期：1978-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The Philadelphia chromosome (Ph) is found in most chronic myelogenous leukemia (CML) patients. The bcr-abl oncoprotein (P210 or P185), the product of the fused bcr-abl gene produced by the Ph, is known to be the major factor in initiation and maintenance of the leukemic state in these types of leukemias. The authors h...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Guo JQ,Lian J,Glassman A,Talpaz M,Kantarjian H,Deisseroth AB,Arlinghaus RB

更新日期：1996-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Since the introduction of the triple screen, the emergence of additional analytes found to be associated with trisomy 21 pregnancies has challenged the clinical pathology and obstetric communities to determine which combination provides the best performance characteristics as a screening test. The cost, practicality, ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Baliff JP,Mooney RA

更新日期：2003-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient receiving antihypertensive therapy developed acute intravascular hemolysis and died. Hemolysis was due to an immune process associated with antibody to thiazide. Only two other cases have been reported. Thiazide-induced hemolysis appears to be confined to those patients treated concommitantly with methyldopa...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Beck ML,Cline JF,Hardman JT,Racela LS,Davis JW

更新日期：1984-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Primary osteomyelitis in a teen-aged boy that mimicked Ewing's tumor radiologically showed small Gram-negative rods on the original smear. The organism isolated was an obligately anaerobic bacterium, finally identified as Clostridium sphenoides. This finding underlines the need for microbiologic analysis of orthopedic...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Isenberg HD,Lavine LS,Painter BG,Rubins WH,Berkman JI

更新日期：1975-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A teenage male, with Goodpasture's syndrome and serum antiglomerular basement membrane (anti-GBM) antibodies, had a focal proliferative glomerulonephritis with crescents. Immunofluorescence microscopy of his glomeruli using anti-IgG antibodies demonstrated both intense linear GBM staining, and granular subepithelial s...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Jennette JC,Lamanna RW,Burnette JP,Wilkman AS,Iskander SS

更新日期：1982-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To assess the usefulness of the cytocentrifuge Gram stain as a urine screening test in the clinical microbiology laboratory for the elimination of culture for screen-negative specimens, we compared the results of the cytocentrifuge Gram stain to the results of culture for 1,171 urine specimens. The data were analyzed ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Winquist AG,Orrico MA,Peterson LR

更新日期：1997-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Data from the 1977 College of American Pathologists (CAP) Comprehensive Chemistry Survey and other programs have been analyzed in an interlaboratory comparison of the measurements of serum uric acid. The majority of clinical laboratories utilize some form of phosphotungstic acid (PTA) oxidation-reduction technic for t...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Geisinger KR,Batsakis JG,Bauer RC

更新日期：1979-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：Objectives:To curtail inappropriate plasma transfusions, we instituted clinical decision support as an alert upon order entry if the patient's recent international normalized ratio (INR) was 1.7 or less. Methods:The alert was suppressed for massive transfusion and within operative or apheresis settings. The plasma ord...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Shah N,Baker SA,Spain D,Shieh L,Shepard J,Hadhazy E,Maggio P,Goodnough LT

更新日期：2017-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Two monoclonal antibodies, UCD/AB 6.11 and UCD/PR 10.11, were evaluated for their patterns of immunohistochemical reactivity in a survey of paraffin-embedded human tissues by the avidin-biotin-immunoperoxidase technique. By two-dimensional immunoblotting, UCD/AB 6.11 reacts with keratin number 18 and UCD/PR 10.11 iden...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Chan R,Edwards BF,Hu R,Rossitto PV,Min BH,Lund JK,Cardiff RD

更新日期：1988-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Human papillomavirus (HPV) testing is more sensitive for the detection of cervical precancer and cancer than cervical cytology. The increased sensitivity of HPV testing and cytology combined ("cotesting") compared to cytology alone permitted professional societies to recommend 3-year screening intervals among the cote...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kinney W,Stoler MH,Castle PE

更新日期：2010-08-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Anaplastic large cell lymphoma (ALCL) is clinically and pathologically heterogeneous, leading to some difficulty in its diagnosis and acceptance as a specific entity. ALCL can be subdivided into different groups according to histologic features (pleomorphic, monomorphic, small cell predominant, Hodgkin's disease-relat...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kinney MC,Kadin ME

更新日期：1999-01-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Posttransplantation lymphoproliferative disorders (PT-LPDs) occurring in T-cell depleted (TCD) allogeneic bone marrow transplant recipients seem to be different from those that arise in solid organ recipients in their early development, the high incidence of extensive dissemination at presentation, and their aggressiv...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Orazi A,Hromas RA,Neiman RS,Greiner TC,Lee CH,Rubin L,Haskins S,Heerema NA,Gharpure V,Abonour R,Srour EF,Cornetta K

更新日期：1997-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A 52-year-old woman presented with a solid spindle cell primary tumor of the lymph node. On light microscopic examination, mitoses and cellular atypia were absent. Electron-microscopic studies showed endothelial cell differentiation. Intracytoplasmic localization of Factor VIII-related antigen was demonstrated by the ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Silva EG,Phillips MJ,Langer B,Ordonez NG

更新日期：1986-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:A patient with an acute burn was noticed to have spuriously elevated platelet counts on an automated system. The major factor accounting for this discrepancy was the presence of numerous microspherocytes which were in the same size range of platelets. It is thus important to add microspherocytosis as an additional cau...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Akwari AM,Ross DW,Stass SA

更新日期：1982-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We studied the histologic and multiparameter flow cytometry (MFC) features of 12 cases of angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma (AITL), 13 of mature T-cell lymphoma, and 25 control cases of reactive lymphoid hyperplasia to evaluate the role of CD10 in the differential diagnosis of peripheral T-cell lymphomas (PTCLs). A c...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Stacchini A,Demurtas A,Aliberti S,Francia di Celle P,Godio L,Palestro G,Novero D

更新日期：2007-11-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Elevated T-cell leukemia-1 (TCL1) oncoprotein expression might promote human Burkitt lymphoma (BL) because increased TCL1 causes Burkitt-like lymphomas in TCL1 transgenic mice. Epstein-Barr virus (EBV) infection has been implicated as a cause of increased TCL1 expression in multiple BL cell lines, suggesting a critica...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Teitell MA,Lones MA,Perkins SL,Sanger WG,Cairo MS,Said JW

更新日期：2005-10-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We describe the development and testing of a novel pre-sign-out quality assurance tool for case diagnoses that allows for the random review of a percentage of cases by a second pathologist before case verification and release of the final report. The tool incorporates the ability to record and report levels of diagnos...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Owens SR,Dhir R,Yousem SA,Kelly SM,Piccoli A,Wiehagen L,Lassige K,Parwani AV

更新日期：2010-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：:The experience at one institution concerning the diagnosis of pulmonary tuberculosis by aspiration biopsy is reviewed. Twelve cases in which acid-fast bacilli were identified in pulmonary aspiration material are reported. The cytologic findings were confirmed by microbiologic culture in nine cases. The advantages of u...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Robicheaux G,Moinuddin SM,Lee LH

更新日期：1985-06-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Bone marrow (BM) biopsy specimens involved by systemic mastocytosis (SM) typically show multifocal, compact, dense aggregates of spindled mast cells (MCs). However, some cases lack aggregate formation and fulfill the World Health Organization 2008 criteria for SM, based on minor criteria. METHODS:We identif...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Reichard KK,Chen D,Pardanani A,McClure RF,Howard MT,Kurtin PJ,Wood AJ,Ketterling RP,King RL,He R,Morice WG,Hanson CA

更新日期：2015-09-01 00:00:00

abstract：:During a 6-month period at Walter Reed Army Hospital the monthly attack rate of Staphylococcus aureus bacteremia increased to 3.8 +/- 0.5 (mean +/- SEM) from 2.5 +/- 0.2 cases per 1,000 dispositions for the previous 48 months (P less than 0.05). A predominant phage pattern, designated S, was found in 12 (39%) of 31 ba...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cross AS,Zierdt CH,Roup B,Almazan R,Swan JC

更新日期：1983-05-01 00:00:00

abstract：OBJECTIVES:Special AT-rich binding protein 2 (SATB2) immunohistochemistry (IHC) has high sensitivity and specificity for colorectal adenocarcinoma (CRC), but data on its expression in specific subsets of pulmonary, gastric, small bowel, and pancreatobiliary adenocarcinomas (ADCAs) are relatively limited or discordant. ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： De Michele S,Remotti HE,Del Portillo A,Lagana SM,Szabolcs M,Saqi A

更新日期：2021-01-04 00:00:00

abstract：:Cytogenetic studies of bone marrow were performed in 230 consecutive cases of patients with chronic granulocytic leukemia (CGL) admitted to the National Cancer Institute since 1961. Twenty patients lacked the Philadelphia (Ph1) chromosome. All were previously untreated. When compared with Ph1-positive patients, CGL pa...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Canellos GP,Whang-Peng J,DeVita VT

更新日期：1976-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:To verify their clinical usefulness in diagnosis and early response to therapy of sideropenic anemia, we compared the behavior of the reticulocyte parameter (RET-Y), a raw measure dependent on size and content of the cell, generated by the Sysmex XE 2100, with the mean reticulocyte volume (MCVr) and mean reticulocyte ...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Buttarello M,Temporin V,Ceravolo R,Farina G,Bulian P

更新日期：2004-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:We compared the grading and staging of transurethral resection of the bladder (TURB) and cystectomy specimens for 105 patients who underwent radical cystectomy for urothelial carcinoma between 1980 and 1984. Of 105 patients, 96% underwent cystectomy within 100 days of TURB (median interval, 10 days). Grading was perfo...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Cheng L,Neumann RM,Weaver AL,Cheville JC,Leibovich BC,Ramnani DM,Scherer BG,Nehra A,Zincke H,Bostwick DG

更新日期：2000-02-01 00:00:00

abstract：:High-performance liquid chromatography (HPLC) is replacing electrophoresis for identification of hemoglobin variants. Our objective was to identify unknown tall peaks with elution times and shapes of hemoglobin Barts found on hemoglobin chromatograms that could not be confirmed by alkaline and acid gel electrophoresis...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Howanitz PJ,Kozarski TB,Howanitz JH,Chauhan YS

更新日期：2006-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Malignant B-cell lymphomas represent a heterogenous group of lymphoreticular disorders that involve the skin in about 20% of reported cases. Skin involvement may be primary or secondary (ie, the result of hematogenous spread). Primary cutaneous B-cell lymphomas (PCBCLs) are thought to take a comparatively favorable co...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Sepp N,Weyer K,Haun M,Zelger B,Thaler J,Faber V,Fritsch P,Grünewald K

更新日期：1996-12-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Several monoclonal antibodies (MoAbs) are now available for immunophenotyping non-Hodgkin's lymphomas (NHLs) in paraffin-embedded tissue sections. To determine the reliability of these reagents in predicting the genotype, 44 cases of NHL were studied with the alkaline phosphatase-anti-alkaline phosphatase technique wi...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Elghetany MT,Kurec AS,Schuehler K,Forbes BA,Duggan DB,Davey FR

更新日期：1991-04-01 00:00:00

abstract：:Specific esterase activity, a property generally ascribed to cells of granulocytic origin, was found in abnormal erythroid precursors obtained from the bone marrows of six patients with untreated erythroleukemia. These erythroblasts also showed nonspecific esterase activity. Neither specific nor nonspecific esterase a...

journal_title：American journal of clinical pathology

authors： Kass L

更新日期：1977-04-01 00:00:00